Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop - Graphics, HDX Optimization and Audio

Introduction This article is a summary of the support articles and documentation related to Graphics and Display issues, HDX Optimization Teams and Browser Content Redirection and Audio. Overview of the Issue HDX is a set of remoting technologies providing the user with the best possible virtual...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop - Peripherals (USB, Printers , Drives etc.)

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to Peripherals - USB, Printers , Drives etc. Top Support Knowledge Content Printing Issues CTX227534 - Citrix Printing Quick Start Guide CTX232031 - How to use Citrix Policy to Set a Default Session Printer CTX140208 -...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop - Upgrading, Installing and Migration issues

Introduction This article is a summary of the top support articles related to updating, install and migration of Citrix environments including Controllers and VDA. The most commonly used support articles and guides are below. There are three main areas covered in this summary including Controller...

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Profile Management (UPM, WEM)

Citrix Profile Management Introduction Profile Management is intended as a profile solution for Citrix Virtual Apps servers, virtual desktops created with Citrix Virtual Desktops, and physical desktops. You install Profile Management on each computer whose profiles you want to manage. Active...

Xenserver Storage: Comprehensive Guide

Introduction This article will assist you in resolving issues with unavailable VDI Virtual Disk Image. Overview of the Issue In different situations, XenServer experiences issues with starting VM’s , taking a snapshot or scan of SR’s and failing with error “VDI is not available ”. This article wi...

Recovering Virtual Machines from Failed Pool Member

In the event of a XenServer host power failure, any Virtual Machines VMs running on that host might not be displayed in XenCenter. This is the expected behavior without High Availability HA enabled. The following is a XenCenter screen shot of the pool prior to the failure of the host named...

How to Export a Virtual Machine to an External USB Drive

This article describes how to export a XenServer Virtual Machine VM to a USB storage device...

XenServer - Overview of Disaster Recovery Options

This article provides an overview of different backup/restore methods available in XenServer for Virtual Machine Metadata. Background Backup/Restore or Site Recover/Disaster Recovery options in XenServer have evolved over recent product versions. This document briefly explains those options...

Cannot Connect to vCenter Through the Streamed VM Setup Wizard to Create VMs

Cannot connect to vCenter throughthe Streamed VM Setup Wizard in order to create Virtual Machines VMs...

Troubleshooting Linux Virtual Machines in XenServer

This article describes about troubleshooting Linux virtual machines in XenServer. Serial console was used to access UNIX server consoles and most of the network devices switches, routes. The simplicity of serial port hardware and its universality make them popular. Serial console apart from...

Unable to Connect to High Availability Enabled XenSever Pool and All Servers in Pool are in Emergency Mode

This article provides resolution to connectivity issues to the pool in XenCenter. Following are some of the issues that you might experience: Cannot connect to the pool in XenCenter Cannot start or migrate the virtual machines, although the virtual machines are active and running. All the servers...

Error: "HVM is Required for this Operation" when Trying to Start the VM in XenServer

Example 1 When trying to start the virtual machine VMthe following error is returned: “ There were no servers available to start VM ” The reason is displayed as “ HVM Hardware Virtual Machine is required for this operation ” Example 2 When trying to migrate a Windows VM from one host to another...

Event ID 7026 - The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: Bnistack

On a target hosted on a VMWare Hypervisor and running Provisioning Services Target Device Software 6.0 and later,the target device cannot connect to virtual disk when starting it from the local hard drive.A red ‘X’ appears on the virtual disk status icon in the system tray. In the Event Viewer, t...

Error: "STOP: 0x0000007B ... " After Updating the Virtual Machine Tools on Provisioning Services

After switching vDisk to Private Mode and upgrading the hosting infrastructure’s Virtual Machine tools VM tools, Virtual Machine stops and displays a blue screen with the following stop error: STOP: 0x0000007B Note: This behavior does not occur with Microsoft’s Hyper-V Integration Services...

How to Configure a Promiscuous Virtual Machine in XenServer

This article describes how to configure a Virtual Machine VM running on XenServer to behave promiscuously on the network, that is, allow it to see all network traffic on the Physical Network Interface PIF. Certain applications, such as network diagnostic or performance monitoring tools, might...

Linux Virtual Machines are Unable to Boot from DVD on XenServer

On XenServer, a user can run both Linux and Windows virtual machines, and like physical machines, it can be set to boot from various sources. However, when a Linux virtual machine is set to boot from DVD, it can fail with the following error message:...

SDX Mapping of Virtual Interfaces on VPX to Physical Interface and ethX port Mapping

This article provides information about how to discover the NetScaler SDX mapping of Virtual Interfaces on VPX to physical interface and ethX port mapping. SDX Mapping of Virtual Interfaces on VPX to Physical Interface and ethX port mapping To know the mappings from GUI, navigate to Configuration...

Virtual Desktop Agent Registration with Controllers in XenDesktop

Virtual Desktop Agent Registration with Controllers in XenDesktop. Event ID: 1022 Event ID: 1001 For successful installation, re-install Virtual Desktop 5.5. After the installation is successful, the following message is displayed: “Unable to initialize new components. The machine will register a...

Setting vDisk Boot Menu as a Default Option

This article describes how to enable the first menu option as the default boot choice without prompting when vDisk boot menu appears. Background A Provisioning Services vDisk boot menu appears when the user is starting a provisioned Virtual Machine, but the user wants the Virtual Machine to start...

CloudBridge Virtual WAN PBR Mode and Inline Deployment Steps

This article depicts a step-by-step procedure to configure two CloudBridge Virtual WAN appliances: Data Center Appliance in PBR mode Virtual Inline Mode Branch Appliance in Inline mode...